In the context of EBM libraries have become more important to medical education and research and to the delivery of healthcare services than ever. Surprisingly, there hasn’t been an adequate set of quality standards for the evaluation of medical libraries so far.

Janet Harrison, Clare Creaser and Marta de la Mano prepared a paper for the EAHIL 2014 conference about their development of an evaluation tool for medical libraries. Standards currently used by medical libraries are MLA and LQAF. The new standard will review these and other existing standards, but will take feedback from a survey of medical librarians across Europe into account.